Star actor and producer, Ali Nuhu Mohammed, has encouraged secondary school students to focus on their future dreams and not be dis...
Star actor and
producer, Ali Nuhu Mohammed, has encouraged secondary school students to focus
on their future dreams and not be distracted, particularly as they take
decision on their career choices.
Nuhu, who featured
at the Kaduna edition of Promasidor Harness Your Dream, a corporate social responsibility
project of Promasidor Nigeria Limited held recently, told the students at the
event to embrace education first before any other pursuit. “Without solid
education, you can hardly achieve anything,” he counselled.
He said the students
should consider themselves lucky to have an organisation like Promasidor show
commitment to youth development through the programme. “You must understand the
importance of education and not allow this opportunity of career guidance to go
wasted. When I was like you, I never had the opportunity for career guidance,”
he told the students, who became excited as he stepped into the hall.
Nuhu commended
Promasidor for the project and said that other corporate organisations should
take a cue from the company. “Corporate organisations should emulate programmes
like this,” he enjoined.
Nuhu, who holds BA
Geography from the University of Jos, said that parents should support their
children in the careers they had flair for, explaining that his mother
encouraged him and convinced his father when he decided to go into the movie
industry.
Earlier, the Kaduna
State Government had praised Promasidor Nigeria Limited for conceiving the
project and bringing it to the state.
Addressing the
students and other stakeholders at Sardauna Memorial College in Kawo New
Extension, venue of the event, the Permanent Secretary of the state Ministry of
Education, Mrs Kande Nana Bage described Promasidor Harness Your Dream as “an
excellent programme.”
“I thank Promasidor
for choosing Kaduna State to be part of this programme. I feel highly delighted
that Kaduna is the sixth state where this initiative is being held,” the
Permanent Secretary further said, as she turned her attention to the students:
“I encourage you to make good use of this opportunity. If you allow such
opportunity to slip off your hand, you may not get it again. Work hard so that
you will excel in future,” she further said.
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